The Three Just Men

By: Wallace, Edgar

A GOOD friend sent one of the issues containing this advertisement to Heavytree Farm and circled the announcement with a blue pencil. Mirabelle Leicester found the newspaper on the hall settee when she came in from feeding the chickens, and thought that it had been sent by the Alington land agent who was so constantly calling her attention to the advertisers who wished to buy cheap farms. It was a practice of his. She had the feeling that he resented her presence in the country, and was anxious to replace her with a proprietor less poverty-stricken. Splitting the wrapper with a dusty thumb, she turned naturally to the advertisement pages, having the agent in mind. Her eyes went rapidly down the "Wanted to Buy" column. There were several "gentlemen requiring small farm in good district," but none that made any appeal to her, and she was wondering why the parsimonious man had spent tuppence-ha'penny on postage and paper when the circled paragraph caught her eye. "Glory " said Mirabelle, her red lips parted in excited wonder. Aunt Alma looked up from her press-cutting book, startled as Mirabelle dashed in. "Me " she said dramatically, and pointed a finger at the advertisement. "I am young-I have no experience-I have my higher certificate-and daddy was something in the world of science. And, Alma, we are exactly a hundred and forty miles from London town " "Dear me " said Aunt Alma, a lady whose gaunt and terrifying appearance was the terror of tradesmen and farm hands, though a milder woman never knitted stockings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086PNWNF5
• ISBN13: 9798633090789
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.0"